A second officer was taken off the streets Thursday for his alleged involvement. The Baltimore City Police Department suspended Officer Thomas Schmidt, a 24-year-veteran, with pay for his role in the incident.

Charging documents showed that Schmidt held the dog down during the killing. He has not been criminally charged.

Efforts by 11 News to talk with Bolger about what happened over the weekend and why have been unsuccessful so far. A sign posted on his back yard fence suggested Bolger is a dog owner. It says: "A spoiled rotten lab lives here."

No one came to the door at Schmidt's Harford County home on Thursday afternoon, but his neighbor, who didn’t want to be identified, described him as easy-going.

"The family seems like a nice family, so it shocks me. They've had several dogs since we've lived here," she said.

Bolger faces felony charges associated with animal cruelty after he slit the throat of a 7-year-old shar-pei named Nala. Sarah Gossard is the dog's owner.

"I don't want him to have his job. I don't want him to be able to go on calls and act like that to a person, or to a dog. That's not OK. It's not OK," Gossard said.

Court documents indicate Bolger and other officers responded to a call in the Canton area Saturday morning regarding a pregnant woman getting bitten by a dog.

Sandra Fleischer said it happened when she tried to read the tags on the dog’s collar. She said she found it odd that officers tried to corral the dog using a broken stick and piece of string.

"Nobody really seemed to know what to do," Fleischer said.

The department’s Special Operations Section then showed up with a dog-control pole. Charging documents indicated that as Bolger got out of his vehicle, he allegedly stated, "I'm going to (expletive) gut this thing."

"One police officer said, 'Let's get the noose on the dog,' and you could see the police officer twisting and hurting the dog, bringing it to the ground to the point where the dog's face is on the ground," Fleischer said. "You could hear the dog screaming and crying in pain."

Police said they're investigating the case thoroughly.

"We are also looking at our policy. The department this year went to great lengths to minimize the threat posed by either stray dogs or dogs at the scene of police investigations," Baltimore City Deputy Commissioner Jerry Rodriguez said.

"I was totally disgusted and it was one of the things that you hear and you think to yourself, 'This can't be true,'" Rawlings-Blake said. "If these allegations are true, I don't know what would go through someone's mind to do that to a defenseless animal."

The mayor went on to say that the City Council would like to be further along than it is in regard to animal abuse cases in Baltimore. She's now urging officials to work with the Anti-Animal Abuse Commission to analyze the way police officers are trained to respond to animal calls.

In addition to standard operating procedures outlining policy at each district, the department last year produced a training video available to officers, even at the academy level. The K-9 unit, the Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter and the Maryland SPCA provide expert advice.

"We cannot come up with a conclusion that would be a viable option for an officer to do that," Rodriguez said.

Gossard said she's pleased that the department is taking the incident so seriously, but it doesn't change what happened, and it doesn't bring her dog back.

Bolger is scheduled to go to court next month on animal cruelty charges.

DOWNLOAD IT TODAY. TONIGHT A SECOND POLICE OFFICER HAS BEEN DISCIPLINED IN THE BRUTAL KILLING OF A DOG. THE OFFICER ACCUSED OF CUTTING THE DOG'S THROAT WAS RELEASED FROM CUSTODY TODAY. KAI REED JOINS US LIVE AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS DOWNTOWN. THIS ALL STARTED WHEN A WOMAN CALLED POLICE ON SATURDAY TO REPORT WHAT SHE CALLS A MINOR DOG BITE. DOCUMENTS DETAIL WHAT POLICE SAY HAPPENED FROM THERE. ONE OF THE RESPONDING OFFICERS HELD THE DOG DOWN WHILE ANOTHER SLIT HER THROAT. COURT RECORDS DESCRIBE WHAT HAPPENED IN THE MOMENTS BEFORE POLICE SAY THE SEVEN-YEAR-OLD SHAR-PEI WAS KILLED SATURDAY MORNING. OFFICER JEFFREY BOLGER AND ANOTHER OFFICER, THOMAS SCHMIDT, WERE PART OF THE EMERGENCY SERVICES UNIT THAT RESPONDED IN SOUTH BALTIMORE. MUCH OF THE INFORMATION CAME FROM EYEWITNESSES WHO TOLD INVESTIGATORS THEY HEARD BOLGER SAY, I AM GOING TO GUT THIS THING. ONE POLICE OFFICERS, LET'S GET THE NEWS. LET'S PUT THE NEWS ON THE DOG. YOU CAN SEE THEM TWISTING THE NOOSE AND HURTING THE DOG. THE CHARGING DOCUMENT SAYS THAT SCHMIDT HELD NALA DOWN WHILE BOLGER TOOK OUT A KNIFE AND CUT THE DOG'S THROAT. NO ONE CAME TO THE DOOR AT SMITH'S HOME. HE HAS BEEN SUSPENDED WITH PAY BUT ISN'T CHARGED WITH A CRIME. HIS NEIGHBOR DESCRIBED HIM AS EASY-GOING. THE FAMILY SEEMED LIKE A NICE FAMILY. A SIGN POSTED ON OFFICER BOLGER'S BACKYARD FENCE INDICATES THAT HE IS A DOG OWNER. NO ONE CAME TO THE DOOR AT HIS HOME EITHER. BOLGER IS FACING FELONY ANIMAL CRUELTY CHARGES. SHE WOULD NEVER HURT ANYONE. SARAH GOSS ARD SAYS SHE IS STILL STRUGGLING TO FIND OUT WHY THIS HAPPENED. THE ACTIONS AFTER THAT, JUST NOT OK. TO TREAT SOMETHING LIKE THAT, SOMETHING THAT CAN'T EVEN DEFEND ITSELF. BOTH OF THE ACCUSED OFFICERS HAVE BEEN WITH THE DEPARTMENT FOR MORE THAN TWO DECADES. THERE WERE OTHER OFFICERS WHO RESPONDED TO THE SCENE AND COMMANDERS SAY THEY ARE LOOKING INTO WHETHER THESE OFFICERS ACTED APPROPRIATELY.